Facebook’s algorithm ‘actively promotes’ conspiracy theories.

August 17, 2020 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, BUSINESS, LIFESTYLES Comments Off on Facebook’s algorithm ‘actively promotes’ conspiracy theories.
A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army, 27th January 1945. (Photo: Captain Alexander Vorontsov/Getty)

Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content, according to an investigation by a UK-based anti-extremism organisation.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found that searching the word “Holocaust” on Facebook leads users to denial pages and groups, The Guardian reports…